Join us for our Annual General Meeting featuring former Dragon of CBC TV’s “Dragons Den” and bestselling author of “The Wealthy Barber” David Chilton! Watch for more details as we get closer to the date!

Mark Your Calendars! RAHB’s Annual General Meeting will be held on:Wednesday, March 28, 2018, at 10 a.m.!

This won’t be just any Annual General Meeting! This event will include the AGM, lunch on us, and guest speaker David Chilton, best-selling author of The Wealthy Barber and best known as one of the Dragons on CBC’s Dragon’s Den!

Watch for more details in the coming weeks. In the meantime, mark your calendar and get ready to see a Dragon in action!

It was standing room only at the General Membership Meeting at the Burlington Holiday Inn on June 24, where members approved Bylaw changes to separate the MLS® Rules and Regulations and Bylaw. Members in attendance in person and by proxy voted 86 per cent in favour of the change. This effectively cleared the way for RAHB to continue moving forward with the Regional MLS® System.

RAHB was the last of the eight participating associations to ensure its Rules and Regulations and Bylaw are separate documents, which is a requirement for participation in the regional system.

Other highlights of the meeting

503 members attended and 126 proxies were registered for the meeting – the largest attendance in memory

RAHB made use of secure voting devices (or “clickers” as they were called at the meeting) to record members’ votes. The clickers replaced the traditional red and green voting cards

Members in attendance were encouraged to tweet their questions or comments on Twitter

RAHB Past President Dan Gies, Chair of the Ontario Regional Technology & Information Services (ORTIS) Board of Directors, gave an update on ORTIS and the Regional MLS® System

Bob van de Vrande (Apex Results Realty Inc.) presented a motion requiring greater transparency about professional standards, discipline and arbitration
violations and fines. (Information was provided to all members prior to the meeting and will also be included in upcoming annual reports.)

Following the meeting, Michael Lane of ShowingTime demonstrated features of the appointment scheduling program which will be integrated into Matrix. (For more information about ShowingTime, watch the video at https://player.vimeo.com/video/117216129.)

The General Membership Meeting has been called to present motions from the Board of Directors to the membership. The motions affect the RAHB Bylaw and members’ approval is required.

What are the motions?
1. The first motion will recommend an amendment to the section of the Bylaw which requires that members ratify changes the Board of Directors make to the rules and regulations. This will effectively remove the MLS® Rules and Regulations from the RAHB Bylaw.

Members are being asked to approve this motion to achieve two goals:

to ensure RAHB is compliant with the terms of the Shared Services Agreement RAHB has signed with the other boards and associations participating in the Regional MLS® System; and

to continue in the work begun to streamline and improve the RAHB Bylaw to bring it closer to the document it should be.

2. The second motion recommends amending the Bylaw where references are made to rules and regulations. These are merely “housekeeping” amendments to keep the Bylaw consistent after the MLS® Rules and Regulations are no longer part of the Bylaw.

Watch for more information about these issues coming to you directly from RAHB President Donna Bacher and CEO Ross Godsoe. They will offer further insights into the importance of your support when these amendments are presented for approval at the GMM.

Want to know more in the mean time? Read “You Asked?” for answers to questions RAHB members have asked about removing the Rules and Regulations from the Bylaw, as well as questions about the Regional MLS® System. (REALTOR Link® > MLS® > You Asked?)

Members who attended the RAHB General Membership Meeting (GMM) on May 29 approved a change to the MLS® Rules and Regulations which will allow brokers, managers and members with broker load privileges to broker load listing cancellations and suspensions. (more…)